Harvard learns management lessons from India Inc.

Enhances brand value / creates international awareness about products / unique strengths.this might generate interest for JVs / marketing alliances and interest students / others in preferring the company as their future employer!

There is no belittling of the achievement of some indian companies But was amused to read the chest thumping statement "120 cases from south Asia is India centric" !!!!! what else could have been there from South Asia, the other options were Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Srilankan????. Barring a few exceptions,( exceptions prove the rule) we have a long way to go. There is something frog in the well mentality about Indian elites. A feeling that the world cannot do without India and we are the best in the world which we are not . so we desparately try to convince ourselves by latching on to such stories which in themselves do not prove anything other than the fact that a country of 1.2 Billion people also providing a reasonable number of students and faculty to HBS provide a few cases studies in preference to that of Pak, Bangla or lankan companies. The mentality of continousing seeking evidence of foreign endorsement for our ahievements smacks of lack of faith in ourselves.

To some extent yes..the benefit mainly comes from the fact that indian companies allow these professors to write cases ,indicate that they are becoming some what transparent and share their situation.but still most indian companies invite Harvard just for prestige ,not tranparent and do not learm nuch.OF course harvard and students benefit more from this directly rather than indian industry .indianindustry benefits indirectly to some extent.IIMA would be more relevant for indian industry in this aspect.

Any serious management student, whether individual or Corporate or Educational institute finds that every Country has its own Culture, Style, response method that makes it unique in understanding the progress. In fact,in my 45yrs association with many business houses(Local or MNCs)we came to one conclusion that we have to keep ourselves alert for analysing with clinical precision and never underestimate the illiterate [otherwise why Tatas could not anticipate the people reaction in Nadigram!]
The Western philosophy has to be translate to Indian ethoes and it is sincerity of Harward to study Indian cases. regards institute of strategic mgt., 9323803106

India is generating more Hoopla than anything to say about. Everything is in future tense......china and india, both are emerging...do we have anything to compare about....China has Fastest train, biggest Hydel power station, longest wall, longest road, tallest buildings, fast growing cities.....India has biggest scam, corrupted leaders, unethical industrialists......Indian PM fears inclusion of PM in Lokpal Bill...not because oh himself (he is no doubt clean) but to keep road clean in case someday RahulG becomes PM...no political party supports anti-corruption bill (reasons are obvious)...still leaders are thinking foreign investors will invest India so that politicians & unethical industrialists can pocket those money....a limited few ethical industrialists of India are questioned by politicians about their activities.....no doubt Harvard discussing about India.....

Eq.Master Team,
After going through your ARTICLE " Harvard Learns Management Lessons from INDIA Inc." I am prompted to cite a very relevant cover page from a magazine which has been etched in my mind and reproduced hereunder :

The cover page has two elderly genetlemen sitting in a park bench. One of them is shown as reading a book avidly. The other genetleman asks him "Sir, what are you reading so intently ??" To which the first genetleman replies " Sir this is the "BHAGAVAD GITA"
sent by my son from AMERICA !!!What an uncannily apt analogy to the TOPIC UNDER DISCUSSION IN THE ARTICLE!!
Further it is not who says that is important but what is SAID IS MORE IMPORTANT !!
I hasten to conclude with another profound INDIAN thought from times Immemorial ""AANO BHADRAAH KRATAVOH YENTU VISHWATAH ! (Let noble/profound thoughts/concepts come from all directions/corners of the world ""
No wonder in the Case studies of HBS India-centric ones figure promiently as highlighted in your article!!

Sir,
Top level professors of IIM Ahmadabad recently came out with suggetion that insted of revising MSP for food grains to farmers Govt. should provide seeds & agri equipment at concessonal price.Our India is proud of IIM Abad which is equivallent to HARWARD. Problem remains with Central Govt & beurocrats who are always busy in their own interest. They have no time to spare to listen the good advises by experts. Policies drawn are temporary & not for long term thinking. Why India is now in state of diguis despite having Dr. Manmohansing -PM & Chidambaram (Harward graduates) at the helm of affairs ?

Yes Indian companies will benefit from being included as case studies at harvard business School. They are being indirectly projected as companies with exceptional managment examples with with high growth by a world renowned organization . The students who are would be world managers of top international class will get to know about these companies and view them in a positive way.

We have no idea as to how these India-centric stories are being projected. Probably, the world knows about "Jugaad" of Indian businessmen. We heard about the interest in "Dabbawalas", "Jaipur Foot", "Indian Railways" kind of stories. But, these success stories are not resulting in rewriting of the management books in US or in India. So, its impact is limited.